Singapore

The video presented to us in the last class was very interesting and has been complemented with the article at the following link http://www.urbanstrategies.com/blog/lee-kuan-yews-singapore-another-way-of-city-building / as I was watching I often got lost in my thoughts and imagined how it would be amazing if I could apply what was shown on video in my city in Brazil. I found very interesting the commitment that the residents of Singapore has to transform the city and further integrate with it when it is integrated with nature.

               The growth of green areas shown on the maps is very interesting.

               Well, I believe that in many cases is a little hard to turn a city or country in a drastic way because we need to change the culture of the people.

               According to the article, Singapore is one of the countries with the lowest government rate index and the government did not provide any benefits such as pension, housing or health insurance. The laws also not very rigid, homosexuality is illegal, drug dealers can be executed and users of drugs or alcohol in public can be punished.

               In a place like this is easy to understand how they were able to apply these transition measures presented in the video. All there are accustomed to fulfill their role as citizen, with his responsibilities as an individual and so the country develops, each citizen works hard, get educate, lives within the law and so the country will forward.

               My conclusion about this is that they did a very good job and I would like to see that in more places in the world and would like to practice it in the future in my city in Brazil, we need a lot of it, everybody does.